OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

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Here’s how the portal is organised:

  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


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Reporting data

Need better granularity of resource access data to help us determine subscription renewals.
3 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 2 Feedback wanted

'Read-only' administrator access for reporting.

'Read-only' view of the OpenAthens reports. To be in the form of a new administrator 'role'. There are often stakeholders at organisations who need/want access to the reports, but who should not have access to the rest of the admin dashboard.
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Administrators / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Timestamps reflecting local time zone

It would be helpful to have timestamps in the admin dashboard reflect the institution's local time zone, rather than automatically deferring to GMT.
2 months ago in Librarians / Org information / Overall usability  / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Multi-factor authentication for managed accounts

Some institutions require MFA for end-users as part of their due diligence process. Can MFA for end-users be made available within OpenAthens, specifically for managed accounts?
about 2 months ago in Librarians / Accessing resources / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which...
11 days ago in Librarians / Administrators 0 Feedback wanted

Allow restricted mode on a per resource basis (with permissive mode enabled)

I have a request to restrict access to certain specific resources to certain groups of our users. OpenAthens allows for either:Restrictive mode - Each and every resource is allocated based on Permission sets.Permissive Mode - Everyone can access E...
16 days ago in Librarians / User accounts and permission sets 0 Feedback wanted

Users' activity tab timestamp

For very recent activity, this shows a timestamp as "A minute ago" or "3 minutes ago". This sort of relative time is not useful! Please give these entries a proper timestamp, e.g. "12 December 2023 at 11:12"
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Overall usability 0 Feedback wanted

Longer-lasting sessions/cookies

1. Make the "Access code" requrement take much longer to re-appear (months instead of weeks). Being required to wait for this code so often is disruptive to workflow. At least IP-validate on site like it once did. 2. Make the session times much lo...
about 1 month ago in Librarians / Administrators / Overall usability 3 Feedback wanted

Download graphs as PDFs

It would be helpful if librarians could download graphs in the reporting module as PDFs, as this would save time when sharing usage reports with management during the subscription renewal period.
2 months ago in Librarians / Reporting 0 Feedback wanted

Option to auto-activate new resource tiles for already activated publishers

I’d like to see auto-activation of resource tiles as an option. If we have a publisher’s resource tile activated and another one becomes available for them, I would like that to activate automatically either according to template options that we s...
9 days ago in Librarians / Activating resources 0 Feedback wanted